A man sleeps in the shade on the streets of Freetown, Sierra Leone, Sunday, April 28, 2024. Sierra Leone declared a war on Kush, a cheap synthetic drug, calling it an epidemic and a national threat. The drug is ravaging youth, and healthcare services are severely limited. (AP Photo/ Misper Apawu)
A girl walks past a 'No more Kush' warning on a wall on Bombay Street in Freetown, Sierra Leone, Saturday, April 25, 2024. Sierra Leone declared a war on the cheap synthetic drug, calling it an epidemic and a national threat. The drug is ravaging youth, and healthcare services are severely limited. (AP Photo/ Misper Apawu)
Kush users rest in a room where they receive care in an unconventional rehabilitation centre in the Bombay community, in Freetown, Sierra Leone, Thursday, April 25, 2024. Some youth in the Bombay community are helping Kush addicts stop by rehabilitating them. (AP Photo/ Misper Apawu)
Habib Taigore Kamara, Executive Director of Sierra Leone's Youth Development and Child Link (SLYDCL), stands in his office in Freetown, Sierra Leone, Thursday, April 25, 2024. Habib's organisation provides medical care and psychological support for drug users in Sierra Leone. (AP Photo/ Misper Apawu)
Kush users' queue to receive medical care at a medical outreach center of Sierra Leone's Youth Development and Child Link (SLYDCL), an NGO that provides medical care and psychological needs for drug users, Friday, April 26, 2024. (AP Photo/ Misper Apawu)
Kush users receive treatment at a medical outreach facility of Sierra Leone's Youth Development and Child Link (SLYDCL),an NGO that provides medical care and psychological needs for drug users, Friday, April 26, 2024. Sierra Leone declared a war on the cheap synthetic drug, calling it an epidemic and a national threat. The drug is ravaging youth, and healthcare services are severely limited. (AP Photo/ Misper Apawu)
A boy looks at his phone on the street of Bombay at night, Freetown, Sierra Leone, Saturday, April 28, 2024 Sierra Leone declared a war on the cheap synthetic drug, calling it an epidemic and a national threat. The drug is ravaging youth, and healthcare services are severely limited. (AP Photo/ Misper Apawu)
A Kush user waits outside during a medical outreach center of Sierra Leone's Youth Development and Child Link (SLYDCL), an NGO that provides medical care and psychological needs for drug users, Friday, April 26, 2024. Sierra Leone declared a war on the cheap synthetic drug, calling it an epidemic and a national threat. The drug is ravaging youth, and healthcare services are severely limited. (AP Photo/ Misper Apawu)
A young man smokes Kush at a hideout in Freetown, Sierra Leone, Monday, April 29, 2024. Sierra Leone declared a war on the cheap synthetic drug, calling it an epidemic and a national threat. The drug is ravaging youth, and healthcare services are severely limited. (AP Photo/ Misper Apawu)
An employee at Sierra Leone Youth Development and Child Link (SLYDCL) provides medical care for Kush users at Moa Wharf, a drug den in Freetown, Sierra Leone, Friday, April 26, 2024. Sierra Leone declared a war on the cheap synthetic drug, calling it an epidemic and a national threat. The drug is ravaging youth, and healthcare services are severely limited. (AP Photo/ Misper Apawu)
Young men work on a landfill in the east end of Freetown, Sierra Leone, Tuesday, April 30, 2024. Kush users mostly sort through rubbles at dumpsites to make money. Sierra Leone declared a war on the cheap synthetic drug, calling it an epidemic and a national threat. The drug is ravaging youth, and healthcare services are severely limited. (AP Photo/ Misper Apawu)
A Kush user shows his injury through a window at a medical outreach center of Sierra Leone's Youth Development and Child Link (SLYDCL), an NGO that provides medical care and psychological needs for drug users, Friday, April 26, 2024 . The drug leaves people lethargic, desperate and ill. While the government does not publish official figures on kush-related deaths or hospital admissions, Ansu Konneh, the director of mental health at the Ministry of Social Welfare, said there had been a sharp rise in people addicted to kush. (AP Photo/ Misper Apawu)
View of Freetown, Sierra Leone, Sunday, April 28, 2024. Sierra Leone declared a war on the cheap synthetic drug, calling it an epidemic and a national threat. The drug is ravaging youth, and healthcare services are severely limited. (AP Photo/ Misper Apawu)
Mohammed Kamara, a Kush user, shows a picture of himself before he got addicted to Kush and dropped out of school at his family's home in Susan's Bay, one of the three largest slums in Freetown, Sierra Leone, Sunday, April 28, 2024 Kamara fell to peer pressure and dropped out of school when he was in Senior High. "I want to go back to school", says Mohammed, and pursue my mechanical engineering dream."Sierra Leone declared a war on the cheap synthetic drug, calling it an epidemic and a national threat. The drug is ravaging youth, and healthcare services are severely limited. (AP Photo/ Misper Apawu)
A young man rolls Kush as other users sleep at a hideout in Freetown, Sierra Leone, Monday, April 29, 2024. Sierra Leone declared a war on the cheap synthetic drug, calling it an epidemic and a national threat. The drug is ravaging youth, and healthcare services are severely limited. (AP Photo/ Misper Apawu)
A Kush user reacts after receiving treatment at Sierra Leone's Youth Development and Child Link (SLYDCL), an NGO that provides medical care and psychological needs for drug users in Sierra Leone, Friday, April 26, 2024. Sierra Leone declared a war on the cheap synthetic drug, calling it an epidemic and a national threat. The drug is ravaging youth, and healthcare services are severely limited. (AP Photo/ Misper Apawu)
Memunatu Kamara breaks down in tears next to her son Mohammed, who smokes Kush in Susan's Bay, one of the three largest slums in Freetown, Sierra Leone, Sunday, April 28, 2024. Kamala said it's a shame for her to see her son going wasteful due to Kush's addiction. Sierra Leone declared a war on the cheap synthetic drug, calling it an epidemic and a national threat. The drug is ravaging youth, and healthcare services are severely limited. (AP Photo/ Misper Apawu)
Ephraim Maculey, (R), a former Kush user and now an anti-drug activist, talks with drug users at a drug den in Freetown, Sierra Leone, Friday, April 26, 2024. Maculey is an employee of Sierra Leone's Youth Development and Child Link (SLYDCL), an organisation that provides medical care and psychological services to drug users in Sierra Leone. (AP Photo/ Misper Apawu)
Kush users rest in a room where they receive care in an unconventional rehabilitation centre in the Bombay community, in Freetown, Sierra Leone, Thursday, April 25, 2024. Some youth in the Bombay community are helping Kush addicts stop by rehabilitating them. Over 70 drug users have received care and overcame drug abuse since January 2024. (AP Photo/ Misper Apawu)
Two boys walk in Moa Wharf, a slum where Kush users live in Freetown, Sierra Leone, Friday, April 26, 2024. Sierra Leone declared a war on Kush, a cheap synthetic drug, calling it an epidemic and a national threat. The drug is ravaging youth, and healthcare services are severely limited. (AP Photo/ Misper Apawu)
A group of youth meet in Bombay Street in a compound where they rehabilitate Kush users in Freetown, Sierra Leone, Saturday, April 28, 2024. Youth in the Bombay community are helping Kush addicts stop by rehabilitating them in a temporary space. Sierra Leone declared a war on the cheap synthetic drug, calling it an epidemic and a national threat. The drug is ravaging youth, and healthcare services are severely limited. (AP Photo/ Misper Apawu)